After a massive bidding war, Warner Bros. comes out victorious by landing the rights to Monsterpocalypse, which is to be directed by Evil Dead‘s Fede Alavarez, who also directed this summer’s awesome Don’t Breathe, which Trace called “like Hitchcock on crack.”
Monsterpocalypse is a board game (read all about it here) from Privateer Press that pits humans in robot suits against monsters. An adaptation was previously attempted around 2010 with a package that included Tim Burton as director and John August as screenwriter. It stalled in development after Crimson Peak filmmaker Guillermo del Toro made a competing humans-in-robot-suits-against-monsters, 2013’s Pacific Rim.
Sources told Heat Vision that the new package has a take that is substantially different from that of the previous iteration, as well as Rim‘s, although the core concept — humans versus monsters — remains.
Alvarez will write the screenplay with his writing partner Rodo Sayagues.